they say – you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here, and the kids, well, they kept the dance party going outside of MSG because they didn’t want to go home or stop dancing or stop singing or stop partying or stop Robyning…

Elton’s saying that this is his final tour (one that has dates that stretch into 2020)!!!! BUT YOU CAN’T STOP NOW ELTON!!! (although you’re allowed to do whatever the fcuk you want!)

What a perfect show. Just as amazing as when I first saw him in 2013, but with even more feeling – and pizzazz – and an incredible piano shaped stage! You made Thursday night alright for fighting ROCKING!!!

But no ‘Pinball Wizard‘? Or ‘Lady D’Arbanville‘???? I know, I know – this is all hits – not all hits by other dudes that you may actually do better than their originals!!

But you’re still standing, even though you do a lot of sitting. Long may you stand AND sit!!!

For some reason I was over Beck. Last saw him in 2013. Then time slipped. His last album was snoozy (and somehow won THE Grammy). I didn’t want snoozy, I wanted a Midnite Vulture redux!

Then right around July 4th, Live Nation, probably looking to shrug off sluggish ticket sales for Beck’s first ever MSG headlining show, offered ‘all in’ tickets for $25. How could I resist? You can barely get into anything at MSG for less than $50! I was in! Oh wait what, Beck released a new album last fall and I didn’t know about it or chose to ignore it? Well, I better get on this sh!t STAT, and to my surprise – IT WAS THE ANSWER TO ALL MY PRAYERS – MIDNITE VULTURES REDUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beck’s Colors album is FANTASTIC, and super fun, and I want it to be my BFFive-ever!!

And the show at MSG that he was having trouble filling? Enough fans filled the seats, and if there was any emptiness in the Garden, Beck overfilled it with the rock and pop circumstance I’ve always known and loved. And I still love it. He still gots it. And I still gots it for him!! (why do I keep forgetting these things?)

But seriously Beck, why do you got such hate-tations on Mutations? You haven’t played ‘Cold Brains’ live since 2006, and ‘Nobody’s Fault But My Own’ since 2005????!!! Enuff with the Snooze Changes and Snoozing Phases – and never forget your BEST quiet work!!! I’m not asking for Mutations 2, but juss for you to give some live love to the album that showed us your TRUE colors, but if we’re hear to ask for things, I’ll certainly take Midnite Vultures 3 – with all the pan flute you can flute at us!!!

Encore – Where It’s At > Can I Kick It > Good Times > See No Evil > I’m Waiting for the Man > Taking It to the Streets > Once In A Lifetime > In the Air (medley) / One Foot in the Grave / Where It’s At

Congrats U2 – you are now tied for first – for the band I have seen the most in concert!!! But I feel like you will soon leave Beck and Moby behind in the dust for good, cause I don’t really need to see Beck again for awhile, and Moby rarely tours anymore

Last night’s MSG show was of course a great one (and very similar to the one back in 2015), as the lads dropped 8 rounds of love from their pretty damn good Songs Of Experience album! And finally, Achtung‘s ‘Acrobat’! But dude, how’d we get stuck with ‘All Because of You’ instead of ‘Gloria’? How are those even swappable night after night? Not even in the same league, bro!

Anywho, the real setlist is below below, but after seeing these guys 10 times, I kinda now have my own dream setlist, and it goes like this…

you can listen to the setlist as a playlist it here (without the Experience songs or ‘Ordinary Love’)

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MSG 6/25 Setlist – Love Is All We Have Left / The Blackout / Lights of Home / I Will Follow / All Because of You / Beautiful Day / The Ocean / Iris (Hold Me Close) / Cedarwood Road / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Until the End of the World / Elevation / Vertigo / Desire / Acrobat / You’re the Best Thing About Me / Staring at the Sun / Pride (In the Name of Love) / Get Out of Your Own Way / American Soul / City of Blinding Lights

Encore – One / Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way / 13 (There Is a Light)

Never had any coordinates set for One Direction, but my heart’s compass always pointed toward Harry Styles. Not sure why. I’m not a modern day boy band kinda boy, and yet I gravitate towards Harry and his… hair. And then I saw him in Dunkirk, and was like, oh, this heartthrob is no dumbykirk – and oh, man, that hair! And then I saw he was coming to Madison Square Garden and you can sit behind the stage for the price of 3 movie admissions and was like, well, why the hell not? It would be like seeing the Beatles (sorta not really)! It could be like an anthropology observation with today’s youth!!

And so I binged his solo album over the last couple of weeks, and was ready to rock, but would Harry be ready to roll? OH HECK YEAH HE WAS!!! And I had never heard MSG louder in all my MSG going life! Sure, I was probably the only straight man there over 40 AND without a daughter in the audience, but the girls’ ear-shattering shrieks at his every shimmy and shake were certainly warranted (and I may have even shrieked a bit meself)

Harry, may you nevers go out of Styles!

Setlist – Only Angel / Woman / Ever Since New York / Two Ghosts / Carolina / Stockholm Syndrome / Just a Little Bit of Your Heart (Ariana Grande cover) / Medicine / Meet Me in the Hallway / Sweet Creature / If I Could Fly / Anna / What Makes You Beautiful / Sign of the Times

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